Re: “Pentagon to pay Boeing $8.6B to make fighters for Israel, raising concerns” (Dec. 30, Boeing & Aerospace):
Lauren Rosenblatt’s report is just the most recent instance of how “U.S. protection contractors and overseas governments can revenue from Israel’s crimes in opposition to humanity with out consequence,” as Council on American-Islamic Relations Nationwide Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell is quoted as saying in a press release.
Whereas the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel by Hamas was horrific, neither that assault nor anything can justify Israel’s slaughter of over 70,000 Palestinians. Washington U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and U.S. Reps. Adam Smith and Pramila Jayapal, want to talk out in opposition to the slaughter and stand as much as an administration intent on spending taxpayer {dollars} to make the U.S. complicit. (Because of Congresswoman Jayapal for being an authentic co-sponsor of H.R.3565 “to offer for a limitation on the switch of protection articles and protection providers to Israel.”)
Sending state-of-the-art plane to a authorities that has been condemned by the United Nations and the Worldwide Court docket of Justice is not any trivial act: Historical past and the world will maintain us accountable. All folks of conscience ought to converse out in opposition to it — particularly our members of Congress, who ought to use all their power and their super affect to sentence and search to forestall this present of 25 new F-15IA plane to Israel.
Leonard Bordeaux, Seattle
